LA BALSA TO AUSTRALIA: The Longest Raft Voyage in History

LA BALSA TO AUSTRALIA: The Longest Raft Voyage in History
LA BALSA TO AUSTRALIA: The Longest Raft Voyage in History
LA BALSA TO AUSTRALIA: The Longest Raft Voyage in History
LA BALSA TO AUSTRALIA: The Longest Raft Voyage in History
LA BALSA TO AUSTRALIA: The Longest Raft Voyage in History
LA BALSA TO AUSTRALIA: The Longest Raft Voyage in History
LA BALSA TO AUSTRALIA: The Longest Raft Voyage in History
LA BALSA TO AUSTRALIA: The Longest Raft Voyage in History
LA BALSA TO AUSTRALIA: The Longest Raft Voyage in History
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Title: LA BALSA TO AUSTRALIA: The Longest Raft Voyage in History
Author(s): ALSAR, Vital
LOPEZ, Enrique Hank
ISBN: 0340177438
Category: Exploration & Adventure
New / Used: Used
Book Type: Small Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Published: 1973
Published By: Hodder & Stoughton
Edition: 1st edition
Pages: 219
Size (mm): 145 w x 220 h x 25 d

Condition

Immaculate with only light wear on dust jacket and faint marks inside end papers. Images depict all need to know detail.

About

The epic journey that took the Spaniard Vital Alsar commanding a crew of three men, three parrots, and two cats, travelling on top of 7 logs across the Pacific Ocean.

The longest raft voyage in history took six months to be accomplished. They arrived from Ecuador to Australia with no supplies and a broken radio transmitter. They sailed through storms, eat what they fished, and proved to humanity that their sustainably built raft was as capable of crossing the ocean as an ocean liner.

Made out of logs of balsa wood, lianas, and no use of metal elements on their construction, the raft was built as the Huancavilca native Americans.

Illustrated with monochrome images and map.

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